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"Beautiful and haunting."

- Rolling Stone

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- The Telegraph

"Heaven"

- The Telegraph

"One of the best films you'll see this year."

- The Telegraph

"Every stroke of Roy Anderson's cinema is a wonderful sonic canvas that reveals our fragile humanity. It has a unique pace, vision and imagination without losing the beauty of the realism that surrounds it."

- Alejandro González Iñárritu

"This film offers visions unlike any in contemporary cinema."

- The Dissolve

"Grade: A. The Funniest Movie of the Year."

- Indiewire

"IMPECCABLY CRAFTED AND VISUALLY ARRESTING."

- ArtForum.com

"The startling juxtapositions and enticing painterly compositions in this remarkably skewed movie are a source of joy from start to finish."

- Filmmaker Magazine

"Critic's Pick"

- NY Times

"Critic's Pick"

- David EHRLICH, Time Out New York

"IF YOU ONLY SEE ONE MOVIE THIS SUMMER, SEE A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE. It builds to an ineffable beauty so sublime that you might have a hard time remembering what it is that other films are even trying to accomplish."

- David Erlich, Time Out NY

"IT’S BEAUTIFUL AND HAUNTING. Once you've seen his work you'll almost assuredly be converted to his warped-as-f*** sensibility."

- David Fear, Rolling Stone

"THE WITTIEST, MOST ENGAGING BLACK COMEDY I’VE SEEN IN AGES. Impeccably crafted and visually arresting."

- Tony Pipolo, Artforum

"THE FUNNIEST FILM OF THE YEAR. Surprisingly profound. GRADE A."

- Eric Kohn, Indiewire

"IT’S CINEPHILE CHRISTMAS. It brings Roy Andersson into the company of Beckett and TS Eliot, and captures the awful, glorious absurdity of being a human."

- Jessica Kiang, The Playlist

"CRITIC’S CHOICE. Director Andersson is a brilliant joker. There is ample pleasure to be gleaned from his formal discipline and his downbeat wit."

- A.O. Scott, NY Times

"A master class in comic timing."

- Peter Debruge, Variety

"A SOURCE OF JOY FROM START TO FINISH"

- Howard Feinstein, Filmmaker

"A+. A sort of Saturday Night Live of the soul."

- Catherine Bray, HitFix

" GLORIOUS. What a bold, beguiling and utterly unclassifiable director Andersson is. He thinks life is a comedy and feels it’s a tragedy, and is able to wrestle these conflicting impulses into a gorgeous, deadpan deadlock."

- Xan Brooks, The Guardian

" IT’S HEAVEN. You just have to watch it, then grab a net and try to coax your soul back down from the ceiling."

- Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

" A comedy as weird and wonderful as its title. It exists in some surreal place where Ingmar Bergman meets The Office."

- Kate Muir, The Times [UK]

"Andersson is in a class of his own."

- Tim Grierson, Paste

"TRULY ASTOUNDING. Open-minded audiences will be elated. Andersson is an artist to treasure."

- Nicholas Barber, BBC.com

"It's impossible to not to get some joy out of just gawking at his films."

- A.A. Dowd, AV Club

"It’s all as entertaining as it is outlandish. There’s a deep, deep humor to Andersson’s vision, a deeper kindness, and — way down at the bottom — an infinite regret at our brief lot."

- BOSTON GLOBE

ABOUT THE FILM

Like a modern day Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two traveling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destiny. It is a journey that unveils the beauty of single moments, the pettiness of others, the humor and tragedy hidden within us, life’s grandeur as well as the ultimate frailty of humanity.